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On September 19 the Digital October Center hosted a tele-lecture with an expert in the field of cognitive psychology: Stevan Harnad, PhD, who has spent over 40 years in US, Canadian, and British universities working on the issues related to cognition … online.Stevan talked about the greatest revolutions in communication over the past 300,000 years, without which the internet may never have come about.See More

A week-long programme of events raising awareness of Open Access at the University of Exeter, UK. Speakers include:Alma Swan of SPARC and Key Perspectives; Cameron Neylon from PLoS; Brian Kelly of UKOLN; Mark Hahnel, figshare founder, Mark Thorley, RCUK. In addition we have a range of training and advisory sessions on open access and research data management. External participants welcome but let us know in advance if possible: …See More

Yassine Gargouri & Steven HarnadThe OA advantage is greater for the more citablearticles, not because of a quality bias from authors self-selecting what to make OA, but because of a quality advantage, from users self-selecting what to use and cite, freed by OA from the constraints of selective accessibility to subscribers only. Articles whose authors have supplemented subscription-based access to the publisher’s version by self-archiving their own final draft to make it accessible free for…See More

OA Mandate Adoption Challenge for Institutions and FundersUniversity of Southampton/EPrints is launching a week-long Open Access Mandate Adoption Challenge for OA Week.On October 18, the first day of OA week, the results of a study were published in PLoS ONE demonstrating that the well-known…See More

The training aims to make climate-related research & data more transparent and accessible to society & stakeholders.Our strategy is to focus on the real open access carrots for authors: visibility, use of research, and more citations. Take part in 2011 !Click to win fee-waivers for the Copernicus and Inter-Research journals & publish future peer-reviewed articles in OPEN ACCESS format…See More